Disney's Pinocchio is a platform video game, developed by Virgin Interactive Entertainment and released in North America in October 1996, in Europe in December 1996 and in Japan the same year. It is based on the 1883 fantasy book The Adventures of Pinocchio, written by Carlo Collodi, and the 1940 Walt Disney Pictures animated movie adaptation with the same name. It was released to coincide with the American re-release of the 1940 Disney film.